Hi all,
We at Georgia Tech are happy to announce the release of ProveIt, our free, open source tool for finding, editing, adding, and citing references on Wikipedia. You can try out, install, or learn more about ProveIt here: http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/
You may have seen our demo of an early version of ProveIt at WikiSym 2009, but this release is much improved on a number of fronts:
* greatly improved user interface and feature set * as a Wikipedia user script, it shows up whenever you log in to Wikipedia -- install once, use forever! * works in most browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera * updates instantly and automatically
This release represents nearly two years of development by the ProveIt team -- congrats to all involved: Amy Bruckman, Matt Flaschen, Andrea Forte, Terris Johnson, and Chris Jordan.
Please give ProveIt a try and give us your feedback! We are excited to hear what you think and to respond to bug reports promptly. You can file a bug report at http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/users/bugreport or email the team at proveit@cc.gatech.edu . If you are an OSS developer, please also check out our Google Code project at http://code.google.com/p/proveit-js/ -- we hope to start building a sustainable community around ProveIt.
Thanks so much for considering it!
-- Kurt and the ProveIt team
-- Kurt Luther, Ph.D. Candidate School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.kurtluther.com/
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
Kurt Luther wrote:
Please give ProveIt a try and give us your feedback!
Very nice, I love how easy it is too install.
I'd prefer for it to have a button - somewhere in the editing toolbar - that would open it; the default setting of it always being on and open could be annoying in the long term (it is a great tool, but one I will not need for most of my edits). It would be nice if the window was draggable and would remember its position.
Great job!
Piotr Konieczny wrote:
I'd prefer for it to have a button - somewhere in the editing toolbar - that would open it; the default setting of it always being on and open could be annoying in the long term (it is a great tool, but one I will not need for most of my edits). It would be nice if the window was draggable and would remember its position.
We have received similar feedback before (e.g. http://code.google.com/p/proveit-js/issues/detail?id=85). As noted there, we intend to provide an option to load with it minimized. We may consider switching the default for this option.
We have no current plans to make the window draggable.
Matthew Flaschen
On Thursday, December 02, 2010, Kurt Luther wrote:
Thanks so much for considering it!
Nifty, I'm so glad to see work like this moving forward. However, as Piotr noted, in my browser it is kind of in the way of the editing window.
Also, does anyone know of a bibtex -> {{Cite}} converter? There are already so many bibtex friendly tools, and then it'd be a simple cut-paste.
Zotero can push from BibTeX to {{Cite}} -- you might be able to extract something from there. -Jodi
On 2 Dec 2010, at 21:45, Joseph Reagle wrote:
On Thursday, December 02, 2010, Kurt Luther wrote:
Thanks so much for considering it!
Nifty, I'm so glad to see work like this moving forward. However, as Piotr noted, in my browser it is kind of in the way of the editing window.
Also, does anyone know of a bibtex -> {{Cite}} converter? There are already so many bibtex friendly tools, and then it'd be a simple cut-paste.
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Great work guys - so happy to see people are working on making citations more usable as it is something that is so crucial to a good encyclopedia but to do it properly takes hours of trial and error for a new user to work out.
Do you have plans to make this into a gadget, rather than something that you have to install on your userscript page? (not sure if this is technically possible, just wondering whether this is planned to become more of a standard feature)
-Liam
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Liam Wyatt wrote:
Great work guys - so happy to see people are working on making citations more usable as it is something that is so crucial to a good encyclopedia but to do it properly takes hours of trial and error for a new user to work out.
Thank you.
Do you have plans to make this into a gadget, rather than something that you have to install on your userscript page? (not sure if this is technically possible, just wondering whether this is planned to become more of a standard feature)
Yes, we have already proposed this. Feel free to comment at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#ProveIt .
Matthew Flaschen
On Thursday, December 02, 2010, Joseph Reagle wrote:
Also, does anyone know of a bibtex -> {{Cite}} converter? There are already so many bibtex friendly tools, and then it'd be a simple cut-paste.
I didn't see any converters, so I added a {{Citation}} emitter to Thunderdell (which uses the biblatex data model). http://bitbucket.org/reagle/thunderdell/changeset/026428c7b1f0
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